Tori Amos

Sixty seconds with Tori Amos

Indy:Your new album is
calledAbnormally Attracted to Sin.Like Gov. Mark
Sanford?

TA: Isn't it quite something that
it's those people who point fingers and judge, who cause so much
destruction, a lot of times destroy people that are really trying to
make a difference in the world and fight for liberty for people?

Indy:And sin is
everywhere. The Internet is supposedly composed of 75 percent
porn.

TA: But don't you think that,
because of this delusion of the spiritual and the sexual, so much
sexuality is devoid of spirituality? We're starving to merge the two,
but don't know how.

Indy: Have you yourself
figured it out?

TA: I'm trying to practice it in
my own life. But as a minister's daughter, it's been a long road.

Indy:Was there a
crucial breakthrough moment for you?

TA: I remember a time when my
grandmother said that a good Christian woman needs to be brought up to
understand that to be respected and live a life of spiritual
worthiness, you turn your soul over to God and your body to your
husband when you marry. I was 5, and I thought to myself, "Jesus
Christ! This is prison!" And in that moment, I knew that this
was what I had to combat — so I'd just write songs while she
talked to me. I'd create worlds and wormholes to jump through and get
out.